The Lost Get-Back Boogie

About this book

The novels title is the name of the song that Iry Paret - a honky-tonk musician Korean vet and ex-con wants to write to hold his memories of a "more uncomplicated time " before the war before prison. The book opens the day thirty-year-old Iry leaves Louisianas Angola state penitentiary after serving two years for manslaughter and follows him to Montana where he hopes to stay cool and out of trouble by working hard on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal Buddy Riordan. Iry finds the fresh start he seeks joins a weekend band and even falls in love. But the Riordan familys problems deal Iry a new sort of trouble with some ultimately tragic consequences.